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First Knowledges Songlines: The Power and Promise Kindle Edition

by Margo Neale (Author), Lynne Kelly (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe

'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell

Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing.

Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. This book invites readers to understand a remarkable way for storing knowledge in memory by adapting song, art, and most importantly, Country, into their lives.

About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.

Forthcoming titles include: Design by Alison Page & Paul Memmott (2021); Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021); Medicine & Plants (2022); Astronomy (2022); Law (2023).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08M3BB1GR
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson Australia (October 27, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2477 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 214 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1760761184
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Lynne Kelly

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I am a science writer and academic fascinated by just how humans manage to know so much stuff - and how we can all learn more.

My new book, 'The Knowledge Gene' will come out on 3 September 2024. It explains how humans have been genetically encoded to use music, art, story and our connection to our physical world to store vast amounts of knowledge as a community. It also explains why evolution has maintained neurodivergence is a portion of the population worldwide. We are no longer using the potential that evolution ensured we had because we have sidelined so many of our innate skills - especially music, art and memory palaces.

In the more recent of my previous books, 'The Memory Code' tells the story of the extraordinary memory methods used by Indigenous cultures the world over, and why that explains the purpose of monuments like Stonehenge. Then 'Memory Craft' explains the way you can implement these memory techniques in contemporary life to memorise almost anything and keep your brain active.

'Songlines: the power and promise' and 'Songlines for Younger Readers' were written with Indigenous coauthor, Margo Neale. They offer an Indigenous and non-indigenous perspective on the way Australian Aboriginal songlines work to store vast amounts of information in memory.

My PhD research provided the foundation for these books. Cambridge University Press has published the academic version, 'Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies' giving a solid peer-reviewed academic reasoning for my ideas.

Writing dominates my life. I started with educational books - 10 of them - logical because I was a teacher. I wrote a novel, 'Avenging Janie' and then three popular science books: 'The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal', 'Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor' and 'Spiders: learning to love them'. I overcame my arachnophobia a bit too well and now I am obsessed by spiders. I simply adore the gorgeous critters.

But it will be knowledge systems which will dominate my writing for many years to come. I simply love the stuff!

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jm49
5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to grow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2021
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A truly excellent book.
This book is so valuable to society, any society. I am grateful to the author for writing it. It reaches over societal boundaries to a truth almost forgotten in the modern world. If you are hungry for a dose of reality in an artificial world. Try this book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in Australia on June 12, 2024
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This is a wonderful part of a set
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5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly stimulating read on many levels
Reviewed in Australia on February 6, 2024
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This is one of the best books I have ever read. It shows you many new ways to think about your place within the world and to organise and expand your knowledge and creativity.
Most of all it provides a deeply considered, richly meaningful account of Aboriginal Songlines as a living repository of information and wisdom which has benefited Aboriginal people for millennia, opening out the discussion to show how the invaluable knowledge encoded in the Songlines can be shared in a process of healing our whole Australian community.
This book is so thought provoking, beautiful, profound and optimistic. I am on a mission to persuade my friends to read it.
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GlennWallace
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative overview but avoids the complexity of addressing the devastating impacts of colonisation
Reviewed in Australia on January 22, 2022
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The significance of songlines is powerfully presented but the complexity of reconstructing the knowledge base of Aboriginal people of SouthEast Australia where colonisation has had the greatest impact is only briefly touched on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars To read is to connect
Reviewed in Australia on January 16, 2021
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This book will begin the process of truly connecting to this land we call Australia. It is a book to be read and to be lived. Yindyamarra.
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